The contents of my ‘draft posts’ folder

Oh Lordy Lordy, I have 53 separate blog posts sitting unpublished in the drafts section of this website. None are in a state to be published, but I thought I would post the titles for your examination.

It’s pure blog purgatory, where I toy with some of these posts once every few months, but they never reach a postable state. In fact, most of these drafts are just titles, with no body to them at all, or body text consisting of one line to remind me what the post should be about. This paucity of text combined with the passage of time (every day a small sip of the water of Lethe), makes the probability that these posts will ever be completed quite low. The titles of these unfinished posts confront me each time I open my blog software as a series of blazing headlines demanding attention. The last time I looked at them all, it occurred to me they might be worth sharing in and of themselves

Just as ancient shopping lists give historians insights into lives past, so this litany may actually be a good representation of my addled mind.

Perhaps other people should do the same?

Is pragmatism a moral abrogation?

The needle returns to the start of the song and we all sing along like before

There comes a point where you master the video game

the tension between direct democracy and representative democracy.

A quick thought about Trump and the protests against him

Auto generated maps and names

Glued to our phones, and that’s fine actually

#selfies killed the autograph

History and the pastness of the past

Answer to what have you got to hide? question

Review: The Election (ITV)

“Hurrah for the Blackshirts!”

Trump’s Bullshitting Affectation

The Internet of the Dead

Now Do You See Why We Moan About The Slippery Slope?

On Punching White Supremacists

Openness, in Love as in Counter-Terrorism Policy, Leaves Us Vulnerable, And That’s OK

Meta

Zuckerberg doesn’t want to censor us… He just can’t be bothered not to

Moby on Ageing

Wouldn’t you just kill for a bit of political correctness right now?

Sticks and Stones May Break My Bones, but Words Will Fucking Kill Me

Get A Thicker Skin

Iterating Away From Stupid

Assisted dying and the risks to human rights

The Trade Union Bill and the Overton Window

Why can’t everyone be a bit better?

Liz Kendall and modern political language

Can we airbrush a Prime Minister out of history as easily as a TV star?

On pragmatism in election campaigns

How to talk about structural inequality

Nasheed

Nick Clegg, the only man who understands politics

We are more aware of sexism than ever before

Redistribution of wealth is what makes our Kingdom United

Two New York Times articles on #Gaza

More social media prosecutions

Book design clichés

REGEX

Technological progress

Depiction of the Media in House of Cards

Hate Speech

Hardworking families

SoundCloud update their Terms of Service regarding ‘offence’

In defence of food tweeting

Steam punk and retro aesthetic design

On piracy DRM etc

Anti-semitic cartoons and the art of persuasion

Liminal Spaces

Borges and Godel Escher Bach

God, Religion, Spirituality as Metaphor

On not flicking the switch

Social Exclusion at the Top

Update

Exercising similar dæmons, I was impressed with the choice of publisher Jurassic London (my publisher, no less) to list all the books that never happened at the end of their farewell anthology The Extinction Event. They all sound amazing.